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ALTA Accelerated Life Testing Data Analysis Software
"I can confirm that by utilizing ALTA we
were able to reduce test time up to 90% along with improved understanding stress -
performance relationship of our products."
Boris Sverzhinsky, Siemens
"Excellent Software - very intuitive - can almost use right out of the box
without spending a lot of time reading documentation. Many, many
versatile tools to use for analysis of ACLT data that our lab generates."
Mark Walton, General Cable
"Simply the best!"
Jeff Lewis, Arrow International
"ALTA is very easy to use and navigate, …..very powerful
tool."
Bipin Patel, Sony Electronics
"[ALTA] is a very good tool to designing all reliability tests
and treatment of data."
Anonymous
"What do I like most about ALTA, where do I start??:
Dean Ramirez, US Army
"ALTA removes most of my calculation/number crunch errors, does
multiple distributions which are cumbersome for me to handle, reduces
analysis time and can feed the 'what if' lion quickly. Also, one data entry
checks and ranks multiple distributions."
Anonymous
"ReliaSoft’s ALTA Software represents the state of the art
of accelerated life testing quantification. It incorporates extensive
stress-life models to cover various failure mechanism activation processes. Its
well-debugged optimization algorithm makes the parameter estimation a journey of
joy. We, both at former Quantum and now Maxtor, have used ALTA for the
acceleration factor determination of hard disk drive QMRT, XRT, and RDT tests. We
also used this tool for GMR head electromigration failure acceleration and life
time prediction. In addition to these benefits, Quantum’s new Accelerated
Life Testing, the QMRT/XRT approaches in year 2000 has reduced the 30% sample
size, test length from six down to four weeks in which saving company scrap cost
alone one million dollar per year while meeting customer’s quality &
reliability expectations. This is a very important piece of analysis tool that
every reliability-conscious company and its reliability engineers should have
in their computers."
Jimmy Yang, Fellow and Senior Member of Technical
Staff, Maxtor Corp.
Frank Sun, Ph.D., Principal Reliability Engineering, Maxtor Corp.
"The Software is excellent. I can't wait to get my hands on ALTA
for my durability tests."
Anonymous
"The software came in the right time, it would not be possible to
analyze our testing without this ALTA version. It provides us much
more testing flexibility, it means testing cost reduction (hardware) due to
increased simulation capability. As well as time saving and more accurate
reports. . . The cost of this component misevaluation could be as much
as US$2,000,000 yearly of service calls. Besides the intangible costs related
to consumer satisfaction, market share losses and others."
Leonardo Tamaki, GE
"As a user of ReliaSoft Weibull software since its first release in
1993, I was glad to be a beta tester for the first accelerated test analysis
program they developed in 1998. ALTA proved to be a valuable tool even
before the official release of version 1.0. The first data I analyzed was an
experiment in high temperature acceleration of ionic migration in an IC. Although
I could use Weibull analysis for data at each test temperature and manually
estimate the temperature acceleration effects, ALTA enabled me to quickly
analyze the entire data set and even determine confidence limits on the parameter
estimates. The experimental activation energy for the Arrhenius model was
between 1.5 and 1.8 eV, a value large enough to provide highly accelerated
screening tests in future production. Over the last two years we’ve
used ALTA for a range of tasks including analysis of printer cartridge
storage degradation versus temperature, development of temperature and voltage
screens for components and assemblies, and modeling high reliability component
life distributions from multiple temperature testing. I’m currently beta
testing ALTA 6.0 and the new features incorporated in this package open
up possibilities for variable-stress testing that will provide significant
advantages in test times. In the current product development environment,
time-to-market is a critical factor and accelerated testing can provide a
valuable competitive advantage."
Dennis Wilkins, Quality Program Manager and Senior
Reliability Engineer, Hewlett-Packard Company
"I really enjoyed the approach used by ReliaSoft for ALTA. Very
innovative."
Kevin Crook, Hewlett-Packard
"[The QALT seminar provided] very useful information to address my
engineering management concerns - Accelerating new product development
schedules using quantitative methodologies."
Anonymous
"I am very satisfied with my purchase of Weibull++ 6, ALTA 6 PRO,
and BlockSim."
Bob Nicklin, Raytheon
"ALTA is the best package I've seen for Accelerated Life
testing."
Johnny Williford, GM
"The software (ALTA) was easy to follow. I can see where this
application would be beneficial in getting a product to market sooner."
Anonymous
"ALTA looks great; these calculations would not be possible for most
engineers without this tool."
Anonymous
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